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☕️ 2nd Starbucks in Iowa Unionizes: Here’s How
The newsletter for Iowa’s working class Share with a friend It’s Worker Wednesday: July 17, 2024. A second Starbucks has officially unionized in Iowa—and two workers I spoke with say they were almost the first. Eighteen workers at the Starbucks store on East 53rd Street in Davenport filed with the National Labor Relations Board…
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🏥 Mercy Workers Say They Were Ignored in Hospital Merger
The newsletter for Iowa’s working class Share with a friend It’s Worker Wednesday: July 10, 2024. You probably heard about the very public bankruptcy of Iowa City’s *other* hospital, Mercy Iowa City. You may have also heard that the hospital and around 1,000 jobs were saved when University of Iowa Health Care (UIHC) agreed…
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🏡 Flood Hits Northwest Iowa (And More Coming)
The newsletter for Iowa’s working class Share with a friend It’s Wednesday, June 26, 2024. I was planning to write about the Iowa governor vs. labor this week: Gov. Kim Reynolds was to appear in North Liberty Monday after the federal government cracked down on restaurants following Iowa’s lax child labor laws, which go…
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❗️Gov. Reynolds Is Mad A Judge Just Blocked This Law
The newsletter for Iowa’s working class Share with a friend It’s Wednesday, June 19, 2024. “As a matter of politics, the new legislation might be defensible. As a matter of constitutional law, it is not.” That’s US District Judge Stephen Locher, issuing a temporary injunction against Iowa’s SF 2340. It’s a win for the…
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🪧 This Law is ‘Absurd Political Theater’
The newsletter for Iowa’s working class Share with a friend It’s Wednesday, June 12, 2024. Recent Iowa immigrants and allies are still fighting against an Iowa immigration law they say unfairly discriminates against and targets them. Lawyers with the US Department of Justice and the American Immigration Council argued in court Monday that a…
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🦺 Iowa Construction Worker Killed on I-80
News for working Iowans Share with a friend The newsletter for the Iowa worker. It’s Wednesday, May 29, 2024. An Iowa highway worker was killed on Interstate 80 near Weston, Iowa, earlier this month. Matthew Dickerson, 36, of Neola was working to patch holes in the left lane of eastbound I-80 on May 16…
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⚖️ Immigrant Groups Warned This Was Coming
News for working Iowans Share with a friend The newsletter for the Iowa worker. It’s Wednesday, May 15, 2024. After immigrants and their allies held marches and vigils in four Iowa cities to protest SF 2340, a few promised lawsuits were coming. Now, they’re here. The first lawsuit was filed May 9…
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👀 Another Iowa Starbucks Unionizing
News for working Iowans Share with a friend The newsletter for the Iowa worker. Happy National Teacher Appreciation Week and National Nurses Week! It’s Wednesday, May 8, 2024. Recent-immigrant Iowans worried, upset, and angry with a new law held vigils in four Iowa cities last week. Big crowds came out to Davenport, Des…
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4 Iowa Vigils for International Workers’ Day
News for working Iowans Share with a friend The newsletter for the Iowa worker. It’s Wednesday, May 1, 2024. Happy May Day, aka, International Workers’ Day! (Read about why the US government doesn’t want to recognize it.) If you want to show solidarity for your fellow workers—especially immigrant Iowans working in some of the…
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Who Here Is In a Union?
News for working Iowans The newsletter for the Iowa worker. It’s Wednesday, Apr. 17, 2024. It’s spring! Summer, maybe, with the temperatures last weekend? In any case, spring always (because I’m a masochist I guess) makes me think of spring cleaning, renewal, and reaffirmation of what I’m doing and why. So: I’m extending…
